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Paris will be the first city since Sydney in 2000 to host the Olympics for less than $10 billion
By the time Paris was awarded these Olympics, seven years ago, there were only two viable bids left standing. Boston, Budapest, Hamburg and Rome had fluttered their eyelids at the International Olympic Committee [IOC], but in the end, they balked. Paris’s …